and technology has essentially tipped the powers of the balance to the government toward the media. so you might love barack obama and you might want to look at those great pictures of him looking very pensive and in control now, and you might want the content that the government's producing and wants you to see and think about when you're digesting stories. but what about when you have a president you don't trust or actually might be up to nefarious activities? the more that there's not a press that could ask tough questions, be in front of the question, ask about, what i are you doing what you're going on immigration quick why aren't we paying more attention to debt, what happened in libya, explain more about the drones program. that stuff matters. so that the fringes might want to bellyache all the time about the mainstream press, but somebody has to be the watchdog, and that has always been the greatest utility, i think, of the mainstream media. >> was your article, in part, inspired by the failure of the white house to allow us to get a picture of the president playing golf wit